Tuesday, June 22, 2010

If it's late June, it must be time for Sporting News' annual Fantasy Football Draft Guide, which means it's almost time for training camp, which means it's almost time for a Bengal to get arrested, which means it's almost time for preseason football, which means it's almost time for the fantasy draft!

[Note that I originally wrote the above paragraph on June 22. Just like clockwork, Cedric Benson was arrested for assault on June 29. Would be funny if not so sad. Okay, it's a little funny too.]

This year's edition, which features Chris Johnson and Drew Brees (my first-round pick) on the cover, is chock full of great fantasy advice from the expert writers at Sporting News. Most important, of course, is the complete 17-round Experts' Mock Draft in which the Chief Fool had the 5th overall pick (my full draft is recounted in the post below).

Check out all 150 pages of analysis, cheatsheets, projections and stats to help you dominate your league this season. You can find the magazine at most newsstands, airports, etc.

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Ladd Biro was named 2010 "Football Writer of the Year" by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association -- the most prestigious recognition in the biz. In 2011, he won again -- the only two-time winner in the FSWA's history. He also won for "Best Humor Column of 2011," across all sports. He was a finalist for the FFWOY Award again in 2013 and 2014, but was denied the threepeat in the kind of bribery/shakedown/ payola scandal more commonly associated with FIFA. Ladd's nationally syndicated columns have appeared in more than 20 publications -- including the Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Sun-Times and Sporting News magazine -- since 2003. Since 2009, all his written fantasy content can be found on the Fantasy Fools blog.